DENVER — When things are going well, a player can sense it. He commands the ball, even if he’s standing out of bounds — and more than 30 feet from the basket. (And few of those shots might even go in.)

It can’t get any better for Thaddeus Young.

Young has been in a groove, and the timing of his hot-handed ways is peculiar. Really, he’s turned up his play since his name surfaced last month in a report that he had requested a trade from the 76ers. Young refuted the report, and his play has not wavered amid the trade talk.

The seventh-year forward had scored at least 25 points in four straight games, the longest such streak by a Sixer since Allen Iverson reeled off seven of those in a row in 2006. While Young’s personal scoring streak ended Wednesday in a win at Denver, his team started another streak: a winning one. Following road wins against the Los Angeles Lakers and Nuggets, the Sixers (10-21) took their first winning streak in two months to Sacramento for Thursday night’s meeting with the Kings (10-20).

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And as for those 30-footers in Wednesday morning’s shootaround?

“Just me playing, seeing how far I can shoot it and get it to the rim,” Young said, grinning widely. “I made two or three of them. I’m not going to shoot them in the game.”

Young has played consistently well in the face of a Dec. 19 report that he wanted out of Philly. He denied it a day later, saying he and his agent never spoke to Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie regarding a trade request. In the five games since, Young has played as well as a guy can — particularly one with supposedly one foot out the door. In that stretch, which includes three wins by the Sixers, here’s what Young has done: 49-for-93 (52.7 percent) from the floor, with averages of 25.4 points, 9.0 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 2.4 steals.

“This is the best I’ve ever felt, as far as my career and just going out and playing,” Young said in Denver. “Largely, it’s (a credit) to my teammates. They’ve been looking to get me into the flow of the offense, get me the ball, make sure that they’re getting me the ball in the right spots. Sometimes it’s in the low post area and where I can work and (they’re) getting out of the way and letting me play guys one-on-one, or sometimes it’s setting a screen and rolling, picking and popping, taking two guys with them and creating easier opportunities for me.”

The other half of it is Young’s renewed focus on shooting the 3-pointer. Explicitly told by previous coach Doug Collins to rein in his game, Young attempted only 34 3-pointers in a three-season stretch, from 2010-13. Under first-year coach Brett Brown, Young is 27-for-66 from beyond the arc through 31 games. At 40.9-percent shooting from long-range, he’s on pace for the highest efficiency total in his career, and he’s knocked down three or more 3-pointers in five games this season.

“I think a lot of people are still thinking of Thad Young from the past couple years,” he said, “when I didn’t shoot a lot of 3s. So they’re like, ‘Oh, we’re not going to run all the way out there on him. We’re going to make him drive the basketball. When I see guys come out slow with their hands down, it’s like, ‘OK, I’m going to pull this one.’ The next few, guys start running out and trying to get me off the line and I’m going right by them.”

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In the thin air of the Mile High City, Brown ran Evan Turner and Thaddeus Young into the ground. Both played 40 minutes Wednesday in the first game of a back-to-back nights scenario. Brown likely will have to get creative with how he doles out minutes for the rest of the road trip.

The coach got a sampling of that against the Nuggets, when he had to juggle rotations with Michael Carter-Williams and Spencer Hawes in foul trouble throughout the night.

Lavoy Allen, with 12 points, turned in a season-best scoring effort. James Anderson, who had 12 points and four rebounds, was big on the fast break and the defensive end. Even Elliot Williams, who only flashed onto the court for seven-plus minutes, provided pleasant play.

“We have some depth,” Brown said. “I feel, what I learned is, we have depth. We’re cultivating depth. We’re growing young players who are able to come in and play NBA games and do well.”